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HAT FASTENER.

No. 570,150. Patented Oct. 27, 1896.

WIT 'IVESSES flaw/1% 0% UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUCY AURELIA BARB-OUR, OF PROVIDENCE, AND JOHN JOSEPH EDWVARDS, OF PAWTUOKET, RHODE ISLAND.

HAT-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,150, dated October 2'7, 1896. Application filed July 17, 1896. Serial No. 599,519. (Nd model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LUCY AURELIA BAR- BOUR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident ofProvidence, in the county of Providence, and JOHN JOSEPH EDWARDS, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and a resident of Pawtucket, in the county of Providence, State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening Devices for I-Iats, of which the following isa specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts wherever found throughout the several views.

This invention relates to fastening devices for hats, and the object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class which is adapted to be secured to a ladys hat and to operate in connection with the hair for holding the hat on the head.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which- Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section of a hat provided with our improvement, and Fig. 2 a bottom plan View thereof.

In the drawings forming part of this specification we have shown a hat provided with a rim 5, and in the practice of our invention we provide a plate 6, which is adapted to be secured to the under side of the rim adjacent to the crown, as shown in Fig. 2, and said plate is provided with an oblong loop or keeper 7, the outer edge of which is provided with a depending lug or projection 8, and we also provide a comb-shaped device, comprising a flat head 9, having a plurality of teeth 10, which are adapted tobe passed through the loop or keeper'7, and said head is also adapted to be passed through said loop or keeper, and is provided at its outer end with a hook 11, having an inwardly-directed shoulder or projection 12 and an outwardly-directed tongue or projection 13. In practice one of these devices is secured to each of the opposite sides of the hat, as clearly shown in the drawings, and the hat being placed on the head the combs are passed through the keepers, as shown at the left of Figs. 1 and 2, and in this operation the teeth 10 thereof enter the hair and securely hold the hat upon the head, and the inwardly-directed shoulders or projections 12 operate in connection with the downwardly-directed lugs or projections 8 to hold the combs in position.

This device is simple in construction and operation and is perfectlyadapted to accomplish the result for which it is intended, and it maybe secured to the rim of the hat in any desired manner.

Having fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The herein-described fasteningdevice for hats, which consists of an attachment, adapted to be secured to the under side of the rim of the hat, and which is provided with a transverse keeper and a comb which is adapted to be passed through said keeper, said comb, consisting of a head having a plurality of teeth formed thereon, which are adapted to enter the hair, and said head being provided with a backwardly directed hook or loop which is adapted to engage with a lug or projection formed on said keeper so as to hold said comb in said keeper, substantially as shown and described.

' In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signed our names, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 14th day of July, 1896.

LUCY AURELIA BARBOUR. JOHN JOSEPH EDWARDS.

Witnesses:

EDWARD O. STINEss, WILLIAM J. OEoNIN. 

